Art books in the library
You can find them by searching the library catalog (GIL) or by browsing the stacks area for the following call number ranges:
- N --- Fine arts
- N 5300-7429 --- Art History
- NA --- Architecture
- NB --- Sculpture
- NC --- Drawing. Design. Illustration
- ND --- Painting
- NE --- Print media
- NK --- Decorative arts
- NX --- Arts in general
- TR --- Photography
- TT --- Handicrafts, Arts and Crafts
Art, Inc by
You don't have to starve to be an artist. Build a career doing what you love. In this practical guide, professional artist Lisa Congdon reveals the many ways you can earn a living by making art--through illustration, licensing, fine art sales, print sales, teaching, and beyond. Including industry advice from such successful art-world pros as Nikki McClure, Mark Hearld, Paula Scher, and more, Art, Inc. will equip you with the tools--and the confidence--to turn your passioninto a profitable business. LEARN HOW TO: * Set actionable goals * Diversify your income * Manage your bookkeeping * Copyright your work * Promote with social media * Build a standout website * Exhibit with galleries * Sell and price your work * License your art * Acquire an agent * And much more
Call Number: N8350 .C58 2014ISBN: 9781452128269Publication Date: 2014-08-12
The Artist's Guide by
A comprehensive guide for both emerging and mid-career artists to pursue a career in the visual arts. Providing real-life examples, illustrations, and step-by-step exercises, Battenfield offers readily applicable advice on all aspects of the job. Along with tips on planning and assessment, she presents strategies for self-management, including marketing, online promotion, building professional relationships, grant writing, and portfolio development. Each chapter ends with an insightful "Reality Check" interview, featuring advice and useful information from high-profile artists and professionals. The result is an inspiring, experiential guide brimming with field-tested techniques that readers can easily apply to their own career.
Call Number: N8350 .B38 2009ISBN: 9780306816529Publication Date: 2009-06-09
Creative Block by
Creative block presents the most crippling--and unfortunately universal--challenge for artists. No longer! This chunky blockbuster of a book is chock-full of solutions for overcoming all manner of artistic impediment. The blogger behind The Jealous Curator interviews 50 successful international artists working in different mediums and mines their insights on how to conquer self-doubt, stay motivated, and get new ideas to flow. Each artist offers a tried-and-true exercise--from road trips to 30-day challenges to cataloging the medicine cabinet-- that will kick-start the creative process. Abundantly visual with more than 300 images showcasing these artists' resulting work,Creative Block is a vital ally to students, artists, and creative professionals.
Call Number: N71 .K78 2014ISBN: 9781452118888Publication Date: 2014-02-18
Art and Fear by
"This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all artnot made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially--statistically speaking--therearen't any people like that. Geniuses get made once-a-century or so, yet good art gets made all the time, so to equate the making of art with the workings of genius removes this intimately human activity to a strangely unreachable and unknowable place. For all practical purposes making art can be examined in great detail without ever getting entangled in the very remote problems of genius." ---from the Introduction Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it oftendoesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. The book's co-authors, David Bayles and Ted Orland, are themselves both working artists, grappling daily with the problems of making art in the real world. Their insights and observations, drawn from personal experience, provide an incisive view into the world of art as it is expeienced by artmakers themselves. This is not your typical self-help book. This is a book written by artists, for artists --- it's about what it feels like when artists sit down at their easel or keyboard, in their studio or performance space, trying to do the work they need to do. First published in 1994,Art & Fear quickly became an underground classic. Word-of-mouth response alone--now enhanced by internet posting--has placed it among the best-selling books on artmaking and creativity nationally. Art & Fear has attracted a remarkably diverse audience, ranging from beginning to accomplished artists in every medium, and including an exceptional concentration among students and teachers. The original Capra Press edition ofArt & Fear sold 80,000 copies. An excerpt: Today, more than it was however many years ago, art is hard because you have to keep after it so consistently. On so many different fronts. For so little external reward. Artists become veteran artists only by making peace not just with themselves, but with a huge range of issues. You have to find your work...
Call Number: N71 .B37 2001ISBN: 9780961454739Publication Date: 2001-04-01
Color by
Charts color exploration and expression from the 1600s to the present day through painters' tools, art, ephemera, and literature Throughout history, artists, scientists, and philosophers have attempted to explain and order the visible color spectrum. Color: A Visual History from Newton to Modern Color Matching Guides offers the fascinating history of how color has been recorded, explored, and understood. Using an extraordinary collection of original color material that includes charts, wheels, artists' palettes, and swatches, the book showcases centuries of significant scientific discoveries and artistic exploration. It celebrates the visual quality and beauty of various color theories over time and highlights the creativity of their design and codification. The book showcases everything from fourteenth-century illuminated manuscripts to Moses Harris's The Natural System of Colours (ca. 1769), and from 1814's Werner's Nomenclature of Colours to Paul Klee's color harmonies to highlight the fascinating interactions of science and art. This stunning display of shades, tints, and tones is an authoritative guide for anyone working in the arts, as well as anyone passionate about color in their personal lives, homes, and surroundings.
Call Number: QC494.7 .L67 2019ISBN: 9781588346575Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Designa by
Following the success ofQuadrivium andSciencia, a compendium of six titles on art and design in the acclaimed Wooden Books series appears here in one volume. From the geometric patterns of Islamic art and design to the swirling floral motifs of Celtic art,Designa brings together six elegant and insightful short volumes from the Wooden Books series on art and design includingIslamic Design, Celtic Pattern, Curves, The Golden Section, Symmetry, andPerspective. Lavishly illustrated with engravings, woodcuts, and original drawings and diagrams,Designawill inspire readers of all ages to take an interest in the interconnected knowledge of art and design from different cultures throughout the world. Wooden Books was founded in 1999 by designer John Martineau near Hay-on-Wye. The aim was to produce a beautiful series of recycled books based on the classical philosophies, arts and sciences. Using the Beatrix Potter formula of text facing picture pages, and old-styles fonts, along with hand-drawn illustrations and 19th century engravings, the books are designed not to date. Small but stuffed with information. Eco friendly and educational. Big ideas in a tiny space. There are over 1,000,000Wooden Books now in print worldwide and growing.
Call Number: NC997 .D4495 2014ISBN: 9781620406595Publication Date: 2014-10-07
Take a look at these museums that offer open access to their collections.
Take a look at these museums that offer open access to their collections.- The Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago offers free, unrestricted use of over 50,000 images of works in the collection believed to be in the public domain or to which the museum otherwise waives any copyright it might have. - Getty Open Content
The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required. - Google Arts & Culture
Use Google to virtually explore museums around the world! - The MET: Open Access
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, made all images of public-domain works in its collection available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0).
Or these sites with art history resources.
- The Met: Timeline of Art HistoryThe Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum’s collection.
- Wikiart
WIkiart.org is an online user-editable visual art encyclopedia.
- Creative Commons Search
A search tool for accessing openly licensed & public domain images. - FreeImages
Website providing access to free stock images. - Pexels
All photos and videos on Pexels are free to use.
Attribution is not required. You can modify the photos and videos from Pexels. Be creative and edit them as you like - Pixaby
Royalty free stock photos, & free images.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary database, with more than 6,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 10,100 journals and a total of 10,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database is updated daily and features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. - Arts & Humanities Database This link opens in a new window
This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies. It contains peer-reviewed journals, selected trade, and consumer titles relevant to applied arts and cultural studies - Britannica ImageQuest This link opens in a new window
Image Quest (Britannica) provides easy online access to more than two million images from one convenient site: Britannica Image Quest. All images are rights-cleared for non-commercial, educational use. Great for teacher lessons plans, assignments, activities, and whiteboards; student reports and projects; or school Web sites, newsletters, newspapers, flyers, and bulletins. - Community Art in Atlanta, 1977-1987: Jim Alexander's Photographs of the Neighborhood Arts Center from the Auburn Avenue Research Library This link opens in a new window
Community Art in Atlanta, 1977-1987 consists of fifty-five documentary photographs of the Neighborhood Arts Center (1975-1989) that capture significant African American-centered cultural and community events in and around the Atlanta-based organization, a brainchild of the late mayor Maynard Jackson. - Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
Humanities International Complete provides the full text of hundreds of journals, books, and other published sources from around the world pertaining to literary, scholarly, and creative thought. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (over 2,000 titles and 2 million records) as well as the full text of more than 800 journals. - Research Library (at ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Research Library provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects and includes full-text access for thousands of titles, including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
